Nebularia pellisserpentis

Nebularia pellisserpentis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Nebularia pellisserpentis
Shell of Nebularia pellisserpentis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Cylindromitrinae
Genus: Nebularia
Species:
N. pellisserpentis
Binomial name
Nebularia pellisserpentis
Reeve, 1844
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Strigatella) pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra (Strigatella) pellisserpentis pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra brumalis Reeve, 1845
  • Mitra crenilabris A. Adams, 1853
  • Mitra cretacea G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 (junior homonym of Mitra cretacea Gabb, 1864)
  • Mitra dealbata A. Adams, 1853
  • Mitra granata Reeve, 1845
  • Mitra grelloisi Récluz, 1853
  • Mitra impressa Anton, 1838 (declared by Cernohorsky to be a nomen oblitum)
  • Mitra microstoma G. B. Sowerby II, 1874
  • Mitra nassoides G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 (junior homonym of Mitra nassoides Grateloup, 1847)
  • Mitra pellisserpentis Reeve, 1844
  • Mitra serotina A. Adams, 1853
  • Mitra uzielliana Crosse, 1861
  • Strigatella pellisserpentis (Reeve, 1844)

Description

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The white shell is narrow and subcylindrical. It is decussated with longitudinal striae and slight spiral sulci. The aperture is as long as the spire. The outer lip is finely crenulated within, sinuously produced in the middle, acutely toothed. The whorls are banded with brown above and compressed at the sides.[2]

(Described as Mitra nassoides) The thick shell is pale yellowish, oblong-subgibbose, subcancellated with rather unequal crenated longitudinal ribs and spiral undulated ridges nodose upon the ribs. The aperture equals the spire in length and is sinuously contracted. The outer lip is toothed, acuminated above the middle, angular below the middle, acuminated in front.[2]

Distribution

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The holotype of this marine species was found off the Philippines.

References

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Nebullaria pellisserpentis